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Add chunked upload support to standard Special:Upload for files larger than POST limit
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While batch-fixing broken Ogg videos in https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimania_2009_presentation_videos I found that a few files were too large to do in one POST (>100M) and I had to do them via chunked upload.

I was just going to do them manually since there weren't many, but found I could not:

  • Special:Upload has only single-POST support
  • UploadWizard barfed with a JS error (and I'm pretty sure it won't let me upload over existing files anyway)

so I ended up tweaking my CLI batch script to do chunked uploads via API. Probably should have done that anyway, but hey.

Note that Special:Upload is used directly when clicking the 'upload a new version of this file' link on existing media -- it would be nice if it worked for large files! :)

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Severity: enhancement
URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Upload

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 3:50 AM
• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Uploading.
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• brooke created this task.Oct 30 2014, 6:05 PM
Bawolff added a comment.Oct 30 2014, 8:34 PM

I agree this would be nice.

Many people using a user script currently to get around this limitation: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Rillke/bigChunkedUpload.js

• Gilles added a project: Multimedia.Nov 24 2014, 3:41 PM
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matmarex merged a task: T139166: Support chunked uploads in Special:Upload to allow uploads > 100MB (in particular, for file replacements).Jul 1 2016, 8:55 PM
matmarex added subscribers: • VictorGrigas, Poyekhali, Jdforrester-WMF, Zppix.
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Jarekt subscribed.Feb 7 2020, 7:05 PM

I just run into this issue when trying to upload bigger version of existing file. I click on 'Upload a new version of this file' point to the file and I get "This file is bigger than the server is configured to allow." Chunked upload support would be great. In the meantime I guess the only workaround is to delete the image and reupload.

Aklapper changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".Feb 4 2022, 12:23 PM
Aklapper removed subscribers: • Fabrice_Florin, • wikibugs-l-list.
RoyZuo mentioned this in T356786: Mention bigChunkedUpload.js in Special:Upload.Feb 6 2024, 4:28 PM
TheDJ mentioned this in T358982: I can't upload a new version of a file that is larger than 100 MB because of file limit in Special:Upload.Jun 3 2024, 1:44 PM
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